Resolve NAB Speculation

[Juan Salvo]

The old saying goes, anyone willing to talk doesn’t know… and those who do know can’t talk. That said I can talk cause I don’t know squat.

I’m sure Resolve will see some new features announced.

I’m sure they will focus much more on the Windows release than on mac.

I’d bet well see 4k & XYZ 12bit output with the soon to be shipping Decklink 4k card.

But most of BMDs NAB annoucements have to do more with their hardware offerings. Looking forward to see how they utilize tech acquired from teranex.

I would like to see a price drop with maybe a design revision to the full resolve panels. There were rumors floating around that they would be introducing a new lower cost panel… which Peter or someone from Resolve team squashed… but that doesn’t mean a price drop isn’t out of the question.

All in all resolve is a fairly feature rich product… there are feature request threads floating around… some of those may pop in.

In my fevered dreams I could see them borrowing some of the teranex algorithms to do frame rate conversion inside of resolve… but that is baseless speculation on my part.

[Colin Travers]

64 bit i could imagine possibly being implemented..at least I hope.

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[Juan Salvo]

Windows release is already 64bit. Question is does BMD deem it worth the time & resources to make mac version 64bit? Given the way the apple winds are blowing, I would put a very low priority on that. So unless it’s an easy change… probably not. Again all baseless speculation.

[Robert Houllahan]

Rendering audio ….. please…;-)

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
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[Vladimir Kucherov]

Rendering audio, good speed conversion, and working with clip filenames as opposed to reels for conform are my top 3 hopes.

Add alpha channel reading for easy title and graphic support and I can easily finish right out of Resolve.

[Sascha Haber]

…and it should be cheaper

A slice of color…

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[Mike Most]

You’ve always been able to use clip filenames for conforming, as long as those names are put into a comments line in the EDL. Or am I misunderstanding what you’re asking for?

[Vladimir Kucherov]

It’s more of for working with XML workflow and cameras that don’t embed reel names correctly (5d the biggest offender).

In Resolve, an XML clip that comes in without a reel name is unstable, subject to auto re-conforming if I add new footage in. Not to mention, if it doesn’t conform, I can’t even tell what the clip is supposed to be if I navigate to it in the timeline.

All I’m really talking about is being able to chose whether I see the “reel” field or the “filename” field of my XML in the “Conform EDL” box.

[Joseph Owens]

[Sascha Haber] “…and it should be cheaper”

The licensed software?

The least expensive part of the entire grade chain at the moment….

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Peter Berg]

Sorry jPo… but I totally agree with Sascha on this one. Resolve is just way too expensive. To have to pay $0 for the software is just too much. Who do they think we are? People with some money lying around or something? Blackmagic should think about reducing the price. Maybe a $100 mail in rebate on Resolve Lite? Any why do they not include a decklink card with Resolve Lite? I mean come on… I don’t really know what they are doing over there. To have to pay for professional color grading software? Why?

And I’m sure they are expanding their support team as well. With all the new users out there, I’m sure they are adding more staff to the support team so they can help the users of their product.

-Peter